Intermittent fasting is more than the latest weight loss trend — it's a path to better health and a more thoughtful relationship with food. While fasting is as old as humans, modern research suggests that intermittent fasting has many benefits, ranging from overall metabolic health to specific improvements in organs like the brain and heart.

What's your go-to drink? If you said milk, you're not alone. Cow's milk is a popular drink for most North Americans and Europeans. In most households, you'll probably find a jug, carton, or — if you're Canadian — bag of cow's milk in the fridge.

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All over the world, if there's anything we all have in common, it's that we eat. Through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, food connects us, fuels us, and comforts us. What we eat, however, is as diverse as we are. Depending on where we're from, we'll have certain foods that are staples in our diets or certain ways that we prepare those foods.

Sometimes it feels like health trends move faster than a toddler you just took your eyes off. You catch wind of the current zeitgeist — what the heck even is mouth taping?!? — and you wonder when looking after yourself got even more complex.

When you're weighing up a new weight loss or wellness strategy, you need to think through the cons as well as the pros. Here's a quick 'n easy shortcut: If one of the cons of whatever you're considering turns out to be muscle loss, run away. Our bodies need muscle. Without it, disease risk and dysfunction go up, and health and performance go down.

There are many ways to adjust your diet or the way you eat. Ever tried mixing up your meal times with intermittent fasting? We're big fans of that method around here. Another increasingly popular approach is plant-based eating, which is good not only for your health but also for the planet.

Intermittent fasting — which alternates fasting periods with an eating window — is a wonderfully flexible principle that you can customize for your needs, wants, and lifestyle. But if you're interested in intermittent fasting, you've probably felt like there are so many options that it's hard to decide which schedule to choose.